Theodore Stark WILKINSON

(1847-1921)

WILKINSON, Theodore Stark,
a Representative from Louisiana; born on Point Celeste plantation
in Plaquemines Parish, near New Orleans, La., December 18, 1847;
educated by private tutors and attended the common schools; was
graduated from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., in
1870; engaged in sugar planting in 1870; member of the school board
of Plaquemines Parish; member and president of the board of levee
commissioners for the third levee district; elected as a Democrat
to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3,
1891); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1890;
chairman of the Louisiana antilottery convention in 1892; collector
of the port of New Orleans 1893-1898; unsuccessful candidate for
Governor in 1898; again engaged in sugar planting; delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1912; died in New Orleans, La.,
on February 1, 1921; interment in Metairie Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present